Dislocated Presences

• Prize
  Gold in Special Categories/Street Photography
• Photographer
  David Masoko
• Agency / Studio
  David Masoko
• Technical Info
  Digital, Multi-camera; Selected And Edited Into Diptychs.
• Photo Date
  Various dates in 2025

Dislocated Presences is a conceptual street-photography series of diptychs in which human presence quietly recedes. Shot across major cities worldwide, each pair joins two fragments—glimpses that withhold resolution and identity—to resist closure and invite ambiguity. With muted treatment, the images echo the anonymity of urban and digital life. By placing distant moments side by side and detaching them from context and personality, the work asks: in a global visual culture, are we becoming interchangeable as presence dissolves into repetition? What do we withhold, or let slip away?

David Masoko is an Amsterdam-based visual artist and conceptual street photographer. He works candidly in public space and edits transparently to explore presence and absence, urban choreography, identity and anonymity, and the ethics of looking—how images construct, withhold, and invite meaning. Working mostly in the streets of major cities, he photographs quietly and is often unseen, treating the moment of exposure as only a beginning. The larger part of the work emerges afterward: in rigorous selection and restrained post-processing.